Dublin in the late 1960's

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  • @ekaj1212
    @ekaj1212 7 років тому +32

    That`s my late Mother Sally Claffey nee McGrail and my youngest brother sitting on the stool @ 3.41 , My Mam RIP. sold flowers for over 50years on Grafton Street / Duke Street corner she passed away October 2005 and the Garda from Pearse Street Station gave her funeral cortege a motorised escort up Grafton street, something that was never done before , she was treated like Royalty and the whole of Grafton street came to a standstill that morning on her way to her final resting place in Palmerstown Cemetery a fitting tribute to a wonderful humble and loving Lady sadly missed by all who knew her. John

    • @marisgarcia6314
      @marisgarcia6314 8 місяців тому

      Muy conmovida por lo q cuentas, abrqzos

    • @marisgarcia6314
      @marisgarcia6314 8 місяців тому

      @ManannanmacLir69 Porq escribes tonterías.

    • @ekaj1212
      @ekaj1212 8 місяців тому

      @ManannanmacLir69 who are you ? You total gobshite. That was my dear mother RIP 🙏 and my yougest brother in that video. I have only noticed your reply. You filthy reptile.

    • @RuthFreeman-b6p
      @RuthFreeman-b6p 7 місяців тому

      How lovely to see your mum and brother from so many years ago

  • @Lar308
    @Lar308 Рік тому +4

    When my Dublin relatives would come down to Tralee to visit and stay for a week or so in the 60's I could not get over their wealth compared to what we had even though they were ordinary working people. Always had a nice car and cloths etc. There definitely was a big wealth gap between the average Dubliner and Kerry person back then.

  • @liammurphy5943
    @liammurphy5943 11 років тому +13

    Maybe it's the hangover but I feel like bawling my eyes out watching this and I've no idea why!!

    • @lincolnarmasols283
      @lincolnarmasols283 5 місяців тому

      It's better times Liam look at what we have lost

  • @brianoreilly239
    @brianoreilly239 8 років тому +12

    It's the late 60's ,it makes me sad as I left dear Auld Dublin for London then .
    Still here , visit Dublin now and then, though not as regularly as I used to .

  • @rubasuperdub
    @rubasuperdub 11 років тому +17

    Amazing how incredibly well dressed everyone is.

    • @annfrancoole34
      @annfrancoole34 6 місяців тому

      People took pride in their appearance even though they may have had less disposable cash.

    • @malahammer
      @malahammer 6 місяців тому

      There was a lot of poverty and so many from outside the city never needed to visit it.

    • @malahammer
      @malahammer 6 місяців тому

      ua-cam.com/video/ieRqKLtOomI/v-deo.htmlsi=s_CJvYPMNN-QNpYA

  • @TerenceMalone-i3h
    @TerenceMalone-i3h 5 місяців тому

    I used to travel over to Dublin regularly from London and Dublin was a lovely place! Maybe it was because i had such great friends in Dublin. We felt such great kids going to O'Connel Street on the bus. Super times!!

  • @aprc1977a
    @aprc1977a 11 років тому +5

    long before 1976, the orange buses first came on the scene in 1974 and are nowhere to be seen, but nelsons column is gone so its between 66-74, there's 1 or 2 ford anglias on grafton street and they finished being made in 1967 also most of the cars have very 1960s styled backlights, just as the peoples clothes look from the 1960s. A great video indeed and I've enjoyed thrawling the net for the last hour or so trying to get clues as to what year it was.

  • @improcat1
    @improcat1 11 років тому +4

    Late 60s probably. Haunting footage. All you have to do is point a camera at a street and in later years it will be magical. A sort of beautiful sadness about it. Thank you.

  • @roeng1368
    @roeng1368 8 років тому +32

    And not a tracksuit, can of dutch gold or junkie in sight !

    • @smhorse
      @smhorse 4 роки тому +2

      No skangers in those days!

    • @Parasmunt
      @Parasmunt 11 місяців тому +5

      And all Irish.

    • @malahammer
      @malahammer 6 місяців тому

      Ignoring the abject poverty ??
      ua-cam.com/video/ieRqKLtOomI/v-deo.htmlsi=s_CJvYPMNN-QNpYA

    • @malahammer
      @malahammer 6 місяців тому +1

      @@Parasmunt even the English, Scottish and Welsh?

  • @garyhitchcock3828
    @garyhitchcock3828 Рік тому +3

    Filmed between 1964 to 66 as CIEs green buses (in this film) were all gone by 1967 replaced by the navy blue and cream livery

  • @sentimentaloldme
    @sentimentaloldme 9 років тому +12

    *A time in Ireland when the suit, tie ,shirt and pioneer pin was a necessity in order to meet the woman of your screams...(sorry I meant dreams)*

  • @olliespike2
    @olliespike2 9 років тому +12

    When Grafton St was still beautiful...before they destroyed...like alot of our beautiful city.

    • @malahammer
      @malahammer 6 місяців тому

      ignore the poverty?
      ua-cam.com/video/ieRqKLtOomI/v-deo.htmlsi=s_CJvYPMNN-QNpYA

  • @OldSkoolWax
    @OldSkoolWax 9 років тому +1

    I'm from Belfast....Dublin stole my heart and has never given it back...

  • @pauljohnston6790
    @pauljohnston6790 8 років тому +2

    There's no sign of Nelson, & he went on 8th March 1966, so what dos that tell us about the time of ths video ! Totally enjoyed it, many thanks for sharing,

  • @luxyaltz219
    @luxyaltz219 11 років тому +3

    I grew up in Dublin during the 60s and this film defo has that 60s feel to it but it might be on the cusp of a decade ie, 1970 .Lovely footage by the way .

  • @flowerstall7931
    @flowerstall7931 11 років тому +7

    This flim is not The 1970`s, Iam The Child Selling Papers At My Mothers FlowerStall On Grafton Street, while The Paper Seller Went to the PressOffice for the evening Papers And having A pint or 2! on the way back, calling Into the bars selling His Fresh Off The Press Evening Papers. Today aug 1st 20013 Is The First Time I have Seen This Footage I have watched this over and over today and remember the days spent with my mum at the flowerstall after school my mum passed away in 2005

    • @geraldinecreaven6009
      @geraldinecreaven6009 6 років тому +2

      Gosh that's just so moving isn't it! I knew you were selling papers, but I was trying to work out why it looked like you were only doing it a little bit.... such an adorable clip. I remember those pedestrian crossing controls well.. my hands remember how they felt when you pressed the button, and what the writing looked like. They had embossed black lettering. My father worked in Guinness all his life and hated when they closed Grafton Street to traffic as it made his job delivering to the pubs much more difficult. I remember those men coming into the pubs with the 'fresh' Evening Press. It must have been amazing for you to see this clip, I would give anything to see something like that of my own childhood. You mam really looks like she's taking care of you in the clip. She looks like she was a kind woman, I hope she was.

  • @Col2109
    @Col2109 11 років тому +3

    I don't see liberty hall in the long shots of the River and that was built in 66

  • @davinatapie9314
    @davinatapie9314 11 років тому +1

    I'm inclined to agree with you.I think this must be earlier that the 70s. The video is great; I was born and bred in Dublin and this is a real trip down memory lane.

  • @thebarn60
    @thebarn60 Рік тому +2

    Wow thank the people who filmed this to have the foresight, that maybe someday we could appreciate it!!

  • @luxyaltz219
    @luxyaltz219 11 років тому +2

    Yes and also a time of innocence , when people didn't know what they know now .

  • @carrigeenhill
    @carrigeenhill 11 років тому +3

    It's 1966. There's a Caltex truck which is pre 1967 and O'Connell Bridge House is there. It was built in 1965. So, late 1965 or 1966. Sherlock, eh? Great footage and music!

  • @walka112
    @walka112 9 років тому +8

    Incredible footage, although there's simply no way it was filmed in 1976. This is definitely the mid to late 60's.

  • @GENFX303
    @GENFX303 7 років тому

    The quality is jaw dropping.... beautiful. (and not ruined by a hi'diddley soundtrack) - The lady and the kid with the newspapers ..... The kid looks like he has been doing that for donkeys, so natural. That shot at 3:10 is amazing, akin to a drone these days.- (Deffo pre 70's, no where near 75) - Excellent film either way, thank you for the post.

  • @flowerstall7931
    @flowerstall7931 11 років тому +1

    As I was between 5and 6years off age at this time I was flimed in this clip, born in 1961 it was mid to late 60s and could not be 1970's but thanks so much to who ever you ate that posted this clip

  • @jonnoflanno2092
    @jonnoflanno2092 9 років тому +4

    1976?! No way this vid would have made around that time - looks like it might have been filmed between 1966 - 1969 considering the fashions shown there.

  • @AidanORourke
    @AidanORourke 3 роки тому +1

    I can't believe this was 1976 - the year I started at TCD. It looks more like the late 60s to me.

  • @OldSkoolWax
    @OldSkoolWax 9 років тому +1

    That's the corner of Duke Street and & Grafton Street at the start isn't it?

  • @bpoleary1
    @bpoleary1 9 років тому +2

    What's the pub with the stag's head at 2:39, is it still open?

    • @TheSeanm102
      @TheSeanm102 8 років тому +1

      haha its called the stags head and yeah its still open

  • @irishmanbateman7041
    @irishmanbateman7041 11 років тому +8

    And not a foreigner in sight...wish it was still like that

  • @EricIrl
    @EricIrl 11 років тому +1

    Definitely earlier than 1976 - but also definitely later than 1966 as Nelson's Pillar is missing from O'Connell Street and it was blown up in April 1966. I reckon its around 1968 or so.

  • @MadFantastic7
    @MadFantastic7 11 років тому

    The title of the song is "I giorni" by Ludovico Einaudi

  • @lorcandebrun7800
    @lorcandebrun7800 Рік тому

    The "Stags Head" at 2:32 with a very young Francie Maher" and Mr. Shaffrey behind the bar.

  • @Corduff-FC
    @Corduff-FC 11 років тому +1

    I reckon I know who the Garda might be, who is directing traffic on O'connell bridge. His name might be Conaghan

  • @brianbanfield5397
    @brianbanfield5397 8 місяців тому

    Two very welcome changes since then: 1. Much less smog over Dublin (see 1:34 and onwards); and 2. No smoking in pubs (se 2:50)

  • @dublinthebest
    @dublinthebest 11 років тому +1

    Definitely 1960's I was 16 years old in 1976 and it was all denim baggy trousers and denim shirts in those days. Even some of the cars and vans are very 60's , green buses too.? Great video though , I wish there was more.

  • @petemullen842
    @petemullen842 2 роки тому +3

    I have lots of memories of this place during the 60s and 70s I grew up there. Things are supposed to get better with time in this case. Definitely not everything has gone worse. It was beautiful before half the world arrived and changed our ways of being . I live in a quiet village now in the countryside, I could not live in a big city anymore. Nothing is the same as I remember it.😢

  • @dublindoggrooming7882
    @dublindoggrooming7882 8 років тому +1

    Woah, great footage.

  • @MrRozburn
    @MrRozburn 11 років тому +1

    It's likely mid to late 60's . Mk 1 Cortina's, Nelsons pillar is gone in 66. So between 66-68 I'd say. It's definitely not the 70's

  • @oliviahowe3526
    @oliviahowe3526 11 років тому +3

    We had style back then. What happened??

  • @speakfreeley4473
    @speakfreeley4473 3 роки тому

    Newest car I spotted on this was a MkIV Zephyr.

  • @dhalsim-1
    @dhalsim-1 7 років тому +1

    Anyone notice how smooth the roads were?

  • @zephyrquartz
    @zephyrquartz 11 років тому +1

    I think the footage moves around a bit between the 60s and the 80s perhaps, given that some of the modern buildings weren't around in the 70s, I don't believe. You might check it. In the 70s guys had long hair and sometimes very very long hair down to the waist... Dubliners who were 'hip' weren't that behind the times.

  • @kierno9468
    @kierno9468 7 років тому

    Anyone know what happened the original tram in o Connell street when did that stop

  • @pauldunneska
    @pauldunneska 11 років тому

    I only saw one traffic light where the little boy was sitting, none on O'Connell bridge, no wonder the 70's had the highest deaths on our roads, that and drink driving and no safety belt wearing. 7/10/2013.Irish time 16:48.Monday.

  • @smhorse
    @smhorse 4 роки тому

    Traffic seemed to be relatively free-flowing back then, and with few traffic signals. Not like now.

  • @turtski
    @turtski 11 років тому

    Hi Tableguy, thanks for this - sounds fine by me - you may need to argue with some of the commentators on Wistorical Facebook who disagree! I would insert your caption into my introductory remarks but Facebook doesn't yet allow links to be edited that way.

  • @CamperVanPersie
    @CamperVanPersie 5 років тому

    Is that a Cannabis Plant at 2:20.....

  • @SeosamhOTube
    @SeosamhOTube 11 років тому

    The end of the film claims to be 1976 - I think this has to be wrong. The buses are the biggest giveaway. Check out the footage on UA-cam called "Driving in Dublin in 1976" Sept 4th 1976 and look at the orange buses - remember them?? I think the green buses were long gone by 1976. Also note that the film is distorted - is stretched too wide. Minis look like Hummers! Great footage though - thanks for posting.

  • @paulcarey3322
    @paulcarey3322 7 місяців тому

    I really think we have regressed a lot, as a society, over the last 50 years. The city looked very clean. Everyone was dressed so well. People seem very respectful.

    • @johnkilcullen1051
      @johnkilcullen1051 6 місяців тому

      There were still slum tenements within a few hundred yards of O'Connell Street then. And thousands were emigrating every year.

  • @annaross4926
    @annaross4926 11 років тому

    What is this song called? It is so good:)

  • @memorybliss
    @memorybliss  11 років тому

    Yep, I know what you mean, Dublin has that effect on me sometimes even without the hangover - I hope you had a good blub

    • @robertlarkin3463
      @robertlarkin3463 7 років тому

      memorybliss 1966 1967 Last green buses were repainted blue cream in 1968

  • @barbaraannecortina7899
    @barbaraannecortina7899 3 роки тому

    I don't think this IS the Fair City in the 1970s because CIE's buses weren't green for a kick-off

  • @brianfarrell1457
    @brianfarrell1457 9 років тому

    Thanks again Memory Bliss! Could you tell me what is the title of the lovely music playing in this clip? Elizabeth

    • @memorybliss
      @memorybliss  9 років тому +1

      +Brian Farrell The music is by Ludovico Einaudi and the piece is called I Giorni. Lots of tracks by him on youtube, if you have a bit of time to spare, I'd recommend giving him a listen.

  • @spitroast76
    @spitroast76 10 років тому

    All looks so idyllic and peaceful,people with money in their pockets. But sorry folks,it wasn't like that for everyone. There was massive poverty in Ireland in the 60s. Most people couldn't afford to pay their bills,work was short,and nearly everyone had to economise on everything. But saying that ,the film does bring a warmness to the heart.tnx for posting.good footage

  • @WowoRoKehoe
    @WowoRoKehoe 11 років тому +1

    It's 1967. I know some of the people in the footage, one of them died in '69.

  • @KineticShades
    @KineticShades 11 років тому

    1st bit Grafton St. The days when you could just about get a glimpse of a knee how daring use to be a glimpse of an ankle, the stage is set for the miniskirt. I see beatniks how rebellious early sixties
    2nd bit Late sixties
    3rd bit No Ringsend chimney at least the ones they have today
    4th bit Window cleaner has the Black Magic Bridge has we use to call it in the background
    Anyway that concludes my observations except to say the music should have been seagullish yet an excellent bit of footage

  • @turtski
    @turtski 11 років тому

    Hello, I posted a well-received link to this on the Wistorical Facebook page last night but many commentators insist this was filmed in the 1960s rather than 1976. Are you able to confirm to them that this is a 70s show?

  • @theduke76
    @theduke76 11 років тому +2

    Judging by the mint Mark 1 Ford cortinas ( produced 1962-1966) and the few 1960s minis I saw..it is unlikely this is the mid 70s?? probably late 60s? A classic car enthusiast would be able to more accurately date the footage.

  • @NOC4SFV
    @NOC4SFV 11 років тому

    When is the footage from?

  • @Vince1303
    @Vince1303 8 років тому +1

    I guess that little boy is in his late 50s or early 60s now. I wonder whatever became of him.

    • @memorybliss
      @memorybliss  8 років тому +1

      Hi Vincent, you could ask him yourself as he left a comment on here about two years back... Just scroll down the page to see it.. Here he is flower stall 2 years ago
      This flim is not The 1970`s, Iam The Child Selling Papers At My Mothers FlowerStall On Grafton Street, while The Paper Seller Went to the PressOffice for the evening Papers And having A pint or 2! on the way back, calling Into the bars selling His Fresh Off The Press Evening Papers. Today aug 1st 20013 Is The First Time I have Seen This Footage I have watched this over and over today and remember the days spent with my mum at the flower stall after school my mum passed away in 2005

    • @Vince1303
      @Vince1303 8 років тому

      sadly there is no way to comment on his post.

    • @amoonliu1154
      @amoonliu1154 8 років тому

      1960? or 1970?

    • @Magnus44711URI
      @Magnus44711URI 7 років тому

      You can now, UA-cam removed the restriction.

    • @geraldinecreaven6009
      @geraldinecreaven6009 6 років тому

      ​@@memorybliss Gosh that's just so moving isn't it! I knew he was selling papers, but I was trying to work out why it looked like he was only doing it a little bit.... such an adorable clip. I remember those pedestrian crossing controls well.. my hands remember how they felt when you pressed the button, and what the writing looked like. They had embossed black lettering. My father worked in Guinness all his life and hated when they closed Grafton Street to traffic as it made his job delivering to the pubs much more difficult. I remember those men coming into the pubs with the 'fresh' Evening Press.

  • @patosullivan8391
    @patosullivan8391 3 роки тому

    Left Dublin in 1967 to go to live London

  • @JoeBob1905
    @JoeBob1905 11 років тому

    Absolutely agree. No way it's shot anywhere remotely close to '76. Green buses were long gone by then. Traffic cops on O'Connell Bridge I estimate were gone by '68 at latest. Beautiful film nonetheless

  • @GuyAwoke
    @GuyAwoke 11 років тому

    I remember the black and white hop on / hop off buses were still operating until sometime in the late 70's in tandem with the newer ones, which eventually became orange, then green sometime in the 80's I think. But yes it just doesn't look like it's 1976, even by Irish standards.

    • @EricIrl
      @EricIrl 3 роки тому

      Cream and blue - not black and white.

    • @ivanconnolly7332
      @ivanconnolly7332 Рік тому

      They were dark blue and cream after they were dark green.

  • @bradleylinemihler
    @bradleylinemihler 11 років тому +2

    its the 1960's - if it was the 70's you would see at least one coke bottle cortina or a sweeney type ford granada, but all the cars in this are pre 1970:)

    • @hugostiglitz6914
      @hugostiglitz6914 5 років тому

      That's what I was thinking. I have pics of Dublin in the mid 70's and there's more motorbikes everywhere.

  • @GuyAwoke
    @GuyAwoke 11 років тому +1

    Why?

  • @scarylittlewolf6631
    @scarylittlewolf6631 11 років тому

    I was born in 94 and I remember Dublin bus had a horrible olive-green colour if that's what you are referring to

    • @EricIrl
      @EricIrl 3 роки тому

      No - the buses had been green from the 1930s into the mid 1960s. They then went cream and blue (double deckers) and red and white (single deckers), then orange, then a lighter green (the colour you are referring to) and the last time I was there (about six years ago)they were yellow and blue.

  • @leybourne42
    @leybourne42 11 років тому

    That looks to be late 60's to me.

  • @kevinindublin
    @kevinindublin 11 років тому +1

    Definitely not '70s!! No flares. All the clothes, cars and hairstyles are very '60s.

  • @Col2109
    @Col2109 11 років тому

    not 76 no way... earlier... but beautiful to see

  • @Beaverbush1969
    @Beaverbush1969 8 років тому

    The title says Dublin in the late 1960s and at at the end says filmed in 1976 ?

    • @inquisitor229
      @inquisitor229 8 років тому

      The cars and the fashions - plus the green double deckers - suggest the late 60's. Then there is the lack of traffic in so many of the shots. Any connection to 1976 might be the transfer era from 8mm film to something more modern.

    • @t.p.mckenna
      @t.p.mckenna 4 роки тому

      @@inquisitor229 This is Pathe stock. I'm sure they would have been shooting with 16mm. I think the 1976 reference is purely a typo as its not a Pathe presentation.

    • @None-zc5vg
      @None-zc5vg 6 місяців тому

      It's possible that '1976' is when the miscellaneous footage was assembled into the clip that's seen here.

  • @bigfanofrj
    @bigfanofrj 11 років тому

    The Stags Head?

  • @eddiepower3876
    @eddiepower3876 9 років тому +2

    I think you meant 1966

  • @Col2109
    @Col2109 11 років тому

    there is a photo on Flicker dot com this one, photos/88051129 @N00/4562331741/sizes/m/in/photostream/ this is a photo of the Bridge from early 70s, if you notice the road on the right hand side as you look at the photo has paint markings, the same image in the video shows a bare road...

  • @mickeytipp
    @mickeytipp 11 років тому

    this has to be between 1967 and 1970 judging by the fashion. There is no way its 1976. Check out the "Driving in Dublin in 1976" video to draw a comparison. There was bell bottom denim flares and platform shoes everywhere in 1976 and there is none to be seen in this particular film. It has a late 1960's feel to it. I'd be pushing it to say 1970 even.

  • @jayroche38
    @jayroche38 11 років тому

    No way this is 76. I'd guess 68 at the latest...

  • @kelvincm1
    @kelvincm1 11 років тому

    It looks the same today for me...

  • @alanflynn3612
    @alanflynn3612 11 років тому +1

    That can't be Dublin the sun is shining

  • @2000Stromboli
    @2000Stromboli 11 років тому

    Definitely 1960s, obvious from the cars and fashions.

  • @merson812
    @merson812 4 роки тому

    Idealistic.

  • @patrickdaly142
    @patrickdaly142 11 років тому +1

    Jaysus! All white faces.

  • @RepublicIcon
    @RepublicIcon 4 роки тому +2

    Before the invasion. ireland has lost its culture, its sense of humour and most of all its sovereignty. if we follow britian and leave the EU and close our borders we might have a chance but i feel its already to late. its actually very sad.

    • @nick-her9275
      @nick-her9275 4 роки тому

      Exactly Ireland’s catholic culture is being taken over by Islam and other migrants. Not only that the eu forcing same sex marriage referendums and abortion referendums to make Ireland become less catholic.

    • @Parasmunt
      @Parasmunt 11 місяців тому +1

      The problem is not the EU, Ireland has opt outs on migration. The problem is our political parties particularly FF and FG, they do not work for us and they ignore the opt outs, they want as many in as possible and don't even care where they get them from, what qualifications they have or what their background is.

    • @None-zc5vg
      @None-zc5vg 6 місяців тому

      ​@@Parasmunt1:10 Orders from Bilderberg, no doubt, to its European puppets.